2005 Workout #141: $#@&!!!!

Tonight’s workout was grueling.

Before class, and I sparred a little bit. I hit some openings repeatedly with kicks and I wasn’t quite sure if he was frustrated with me or himself, but he got some good shots in so he shouldn’t sweat it too much. The thing that gets me is I didn’t really know how I got those kicks in, it just sort’ve happened. That’s good for me, however its bad for helping him refine his sparring to prevent such occurences.

The whole first class was geared to remove any ability to feel pain in the legs. We focused on moving slower and deeper with every technique. I was suffering until about halfway through and then something died inside and it stopped hurting. So I went with it. While I still have quite a ways to go, I noticed that my mobility forward and backwards wasn’t as labored as I would have thought.

Part of me wanted to die between classes, part of me wanted to do more.

The do more side of me won. The second class was geared toward sparring, and we got to do some interesting drills to work on timing and speed of combinations while the other person just stood there and made a good target. I got across from Oedewaldt-san and we had some pretty good exchanges. He caught me with a hook kick to the side of the head. While it didn’t hurt, it did slosh around my inner ear well enough to unsettle my balance. It was like my whole frame of vision was heading down and to the left and I couldn’t help but sit down that direction. A few seconds later I was back in the saddle.

A bit later on I got across from . We had a few good exchanges, but while he was moving in stance his foot came down on mine and rolled off. I knew immediately that the toe was broken because the conjoined area between the two toes immediately started to swell up. Also, the toe was rolled noticeably toward the edge of my foot starting at the joint. I shook it off (broken toes aren’t that bad) and finished up sparring with Vickers-san and Walker. After class I had Dad pull out the toe (that’s the only bad part) and Sensei Hartman donated some tape to my cause. In a few weeks that toe should be fine and dandy, but until then it will be taped to the next non-conjoined toe next to it.

This class was definitely of the ass-kicker variety. Its one of those that you just KNOW that you’re going to be sore over the next few days. Thanks, !!